Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking
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Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking

Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking

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Vaike Fors (Author) Sarah Pink (Author) Martin Berg (Author) Tom O'Dell (Author)  

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Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to its past, present and possible future. Building on social science approaches, the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the status of big data. In doing so it proposes an agenda for future research and design that puts people at its centre.
Vaike Fors is Associate Professor of Pedagogy at Halmstad University, Sweden. Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia. Martin Berg is Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Technology at Malmoe University, Sweden. Tom O'Dell is Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.
  • Contributor: Vaike Fors
  • Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN13: 9781350051386
  • Number of Pages: 176
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 371
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2019-12-12
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Vaike Fors is Associate Professor of Pedagogy at Halmstad University, Sweden. Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia. Martin Berg is Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Technology at Malmoe University, Sweden. Tom O'Dell is Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.

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